What is DeltaGraph Professional 2.0.3?

Feature for Feature, DeltaGraph Professional is the best general-purpose business and technical charting program available for the Macintosh. A major upgrade to the highly regarded DeltaGraph 1.5, DeltaGraph Professional supports 13 new chart types and adds many of the presentation capabilities found in programs like Aldus Persuasion and Symantec’s More.

Users familiar with DeltaGraph 1.5 should find it easy to migrate to DeltaGraph Professional. The new software builds on the earlier interface, and the steps to create a chart are the same: entering numbers in or importing numbers to a built-in spreadsheet (called a data sheet), selecting a chart type, and plotting the data. What changes have been made to the interface are helpful. For example, one dialog box now controls both ticks and grids; a Preferences setting lets users double-click on the various chart components to access dialog boxes for Labels, Axis, and Ticks and Grids; and creating bullet and organizational charts is a simple matter of entering information in a new Text window, clicking on the Plot button, and then choosing the format you like.

Like its predecessor, DeltaGraph Professional can rotate three-dimensional charts no more than 90 degrees on either the x- or y- axis. Compare this with Claris Resolve’s 360 degrees around the vertical axis and 90 degrees around the horizontal, Microsoft Excel 3.0’s 360 degrees around the vertical and 180 degrees around the horizontal, and Visual Business Systems’ GraphMaster’s 360-degree rotation around the x-,y-, and z- axes (see the GraphMaster review in this issue). In practice, 90-degree rotation is often sufficient, and you can plot data in reverse order to flip a chart 180 degrees around the vertical, but this is still limited. DeltaPoint promises to improve rotational capabilities in future versions.

DeltaGraph Professional includes eight new two-dimensional charts, including bubble, spider, time-line, and ternary (triangle); three new three-dimensional charts, including true x-y-z; and two new text charts — bullet and organizational. DeltaGraph Professional appears to be the only general-purpose charting program to offer ternary and true x-y-z charts (the latter in two dimensions as well as three). Both of these are useful in technical applications, such as, in the case of x-y-z graphs, visualizing land-survey data. DeltaGraph Professional also gives users the new capability to define their own curve-fitting formulas. One feature that’s lacking, however, is the ability to click on a line graph and get the x-y coordinates.

Justin, Bill. (May 1992). DeltaGraph Professional 2.0. Macworld. (pg. 178).

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Architecture

Motorola 68K

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II